The Hidden Struggle of Lipreading and Masks

The Hidden Struggle of Lipreading and Masks

One secondary impact of our Covid pandemic that affects me and so many others with hearing loss, but something that most people are quite unaware of, is the wearing of masks. I am very dependent on lipreading and visual cues despite the amplification provided by my...
SILENCE

SILENCE

Not yet knowing what it was to hear and speak, I had no idea what I’d been missing, that other people experienced the world differently. As a little girl with a severe hearing loss, I felt completely at home in my world defined by visual communication and other...
Listening with a Hearing Loss

Listening with a Hearing Loss

Born with a severe hearing loss, but not diagnosed until I was four when I received my first hearing aid, I worked hard to learn to hear, lipread and speak. Here I am at age 4, trying to make out songs on my little record player. Even with a hearing aid, as I couldn’t...
Lost in my own World

Lost in my own World

When I was 4 years, apart from some babbling and a few words, I was not yet talking. My parents had not picked up that something might be wrong. In Kindergarten I was truly lost in my own world oblivious to the singing and activities of the other children. My nursery...